Jeff Merkley actually said...

"What has been missing, in my thinking, is for the Department of Energy to lay out a plan for how we are going to end our dependence on foreign oil."

"We have proposed, the Senators who have put this forward have proposed having a Department of Energy Security..."

"There are many, many approaches other than a short-term transfer onto the working Americans of health care costs."

"So let me press that a little bit because the problem seems to be..."